The woman with the 5 elephants

One of the highlights of our NYC trip was seeing "The woman with the 5 elephants". If you get a chance, please do yourself a favour and see this beautiful documentary.



Swetlana Geier is such an inspiration. I loved her intelligence, humour, courage and beauty.

Some of what I've been up to

It's been rather quiet here, I know. But life has been anything but quiet. We hit the road in July. For a totally impromtu, unplanned, but invigorating holiday.

Mainly to see this,


(photos from the Savage Beauty catalog, Solve Sundsbo)


sit here,


and eat these.

It was great. We weren't planning on going this year, but I guess traditions are hard to break.

More of what I've been up to (including some knitting) soon...

Leaving the nest

A mama robin decided to make her nest on the windowsill of one of my colleagues at work. He installed a camera to capture the nestlings' progress and made a time lapse montage. It's amazing to watch.


The adult birds never stop caring for their young, much like all you hard-working parents out there.

The Tree of Life

Have you seen this stunning movie? I was astounded.

New specs, new knit

So yesterday I had a mini misadventure. I got a flat tire while biking to work. This caused me to break abruptly which sent my glasses flying off my face and onto the pavement. So now I not only had a flatty, but I had broken specs too. Harumph!

After dropping off my bike at the bike shop (yes, I should know how to fix a flat, but mechanical stuff is NOT my forte) I popped by my local optometrist and picked out a new pair of "lunettes". Less than 24 hours later, voilà!


Yay! I'm really quite fond of them. Lemons into lemonade, I suppose.

I also thought it would be a good opportunity to show you my latest sample knit for Hannah.


Unfortunately most of the snaps didn't turn out, these were the best in the bunch. And now the sweater is all packaged up and ready to go. I don't think I could bear putting an angora and alpaca turtleneck back on in this heat! Oh well. Deets here.

You'll eventually get to see another version of this lovely design. I enjoyed knitting the Lightweight Pullover so much that I cast one on for myself.
Stay tuned...

a colourful weekend

How has your weekend been so far?


I took out my box of paints and had a bit of fun.




I forgot how lovely it is playing with colours.


Speaking of colour, here is the humble beginnings of my nascent natural dyeing adventures with cochineal, madder and logwood. The resulting yarn is fairly scratchy, so I'm not sure what to do with it, but still, the colours are pretty...


I also added a few inches to a new sample knit for Hannah.

Now, out of the house I go. It's too beautiful to spend one more minute indoors! I'm off for a hike, and then a stop at the farmer's market. Hope your Sunday is just as sweet.

This woman's work

Maria Bosch Working from Toast Travels on Vimeo.

I was fascinated watching this woman's beautiful work. I've never seen pottery done this way.
(via Toast Travels website)

I hope you have a lovely and creative weekend yourself!